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SOA Maturity Model - Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not just another product or technology to be added to the IT environment. Rather, SOA requires significant and often fairly far-reaching changes to truly reap all the benefits of adopting SOA. To successfully adopt SOA, a company must create a plan that addresses the full extent of the changes required for SOA. For the past five years Oracle has been worki...

Oracle at Trec8: A Lexical Approach

Oracle’s system for Trec8 was the interMedia Text retrieval engine integrated with the Oracle8i database and SQL query language. interMedia Text supports a novel theme-based document retrieval capability using an extensive lexical knowledge base. Trec8 queries constructed by extracting themes from topic titles and descriptions were manually refined. Queries were simple and intuitive. Oracle’s r...

Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Simplifying Cloud, Mobile, and MFT-based Integration with a Developer-centric Approach

Reflective Oracles: A Foundation for Classical Game Theory

Classical game theory treats players as special—a description of a game contains a full, explicit enumeration of all players—even though in the real world, “players” are no more fundamentally special than rocks or clouds. It isn’t trivial to find a decision-theoretic foundation for game theory in which an agent’s coplayers are a non-distinguished part of the agent’s environment. Attempts to mod...

Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA White Paper

The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) model has become the cornerstone of business computing. Its ability to greatly accelerate the development of business-critical applications promotes business agility, decreases time-to-value and total cost of ownership (TCO), and greatly increases the efficiency and strategic value of IT. Beyond mere application development, it has become the favored appr...